The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-12
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lls ExcURsIoNlsTs KILLED,
And Nearly 400 More Perhaps
Fatally Injured
Iii All Awful Accident ut Chats
worth, Illinois. ~
A Train Plunges Through a Burn
ing Bridge,
Then Follow Appalling Scenes Of
Death.
Men, Women and Children Perish
in the Flames, ~.
While Spectators IRE Powerless to
Aid Them.
Men, Women and Children Perish
in the Flames, ~.
While Spectators IRE Powerless to
si:t Aid Them.
Probably the IL Work OF Fiondisll
Train Wreckers.
Full Details Of the Heartrending
\ Occurrence.

CnATswoHrH, ILL.,, August 1.-The
Niagara Falls excursion train on the Toll
edo, Peoria 4 Western Railway, eoneistipg
OF seventeen coaches and s!eepers, crowd.
ed with passengers from Peoria, Ill, and
points along the line, was wrecked last
night, two and half miles east Of Chats.
worth, by running into burning bridge
on the Vermillion river. IL
The two engines were completely wreck.
cd, together with ten coachea and Baggage
car. Engineer McClintock was instantly
killed. Two fremeu aud the other ensi.
Moor escaped serious injury. - NJ
The ten cars we're piled on top OF the
two engines, being tslescoped and piled
across and on top Of each other. 1t is
miraculous how any escapsd, as the
coaches and engines do not occupy over
two car lengths Of track and MI on top OF
the roadbed. ~ s
Tho dead are estimated at over one hun
bred. The cars caught fire., but it was put
ont by the traipmen and passengers. 9:s
Z ~ LchNy KAN set AL auout wv uUuTb
after the wreck and before the wounded
could be taken away, raining Tor two
hours The people are doing all they can
for the wounded. ~ Is
OVER ONE HUSDRED KILLED,
Reports of, the Catastrophe Received ut
| Chienso-Causo OF tho Disaster.
CHICAGO, August ll.-Nsws OF tho ter.
ribls disaster ct .Chatsworth, received at
the Illinois Central offices in this city this
morning, ia that the train consisted OF
two engines and sixteen coaches. {.
Tho culvert had been burned away
about two miles east of Chatsworth, pre-
Bumably by prairie fire, and about one
o'clock this morning the engines aud
coaches went over. l{ ss7 .t..@+E
This agent st Ohatsworth reports to the
General Manager, E. P. Jeffrey, OF the
Illinois Central, that ever oas hundred
are 4 killed and about a like number
injured. He eau give no further par
ticulars. 5,s Is tS
Two Peoris gentlemen who had in
tended to take the iated train, reached
Chicago this morning, having at the last
moment selected smother route East. n! q
;sThey say the train was made up ut Pso-
ria, go thai probably the msjority Of the
victims are from that city or its Immediate
vicinity. Twelve cars started IRON Peoria,
Including four aleepsrs. Attached to the
train was the private car OF the Suporin.
tendens Of the road, which WAS to ba &C.
cupied by himself aud son. ,35 a5
The departure from Peoria was at r.
N , and the intention was to take on an
other coach filled with excursionists ct
Bloomington. Then the run WAS to be
by way Of Logsnsport, Ind, and Detroit,
The programme seetas to have been fully
carried out until tho great throng OF pleas.
ure.seekers met such q fearful check al
the bridge over the Vsrmilion river. a